"A pitch on the option," Gamecocks quarterback Ron Bass remembers."How our defense held them is one thing most people forget," Bass says. Ron threw a perfect pass, and I expected to get hit, but nobody was there.

"I wanted to make the team," Ronnie Bass says in an interview. Did Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass really kiss Gerry Bertier on the lips? In fact, like Ronnie Bass, most of the other players on the team had long hair in 1971, including Gerry Bertier. - '71 Titans Website Was Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass really a long haired hippie from California? Titan quarterback Ronnie Bass did come from California, but portraying him as a long haired hippie is a bit of an exageration. "I was never quite like that," Bass told the Greenville (SC) News. "But that's Hollywood. I'll say for the record my hair was never that long. Also for the record, Ron never did Tai Chi outside the school. In an interview with the Greenville News, the real Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass said, "They (the movie) had a community divided down black and white, and it really wasn't like that in 1971 Alexandria. No. In the film we see Petey Jones (Donald Faison) and Ronnie Bass (Kip Pardue) enter a restaurant where they are refused service.

Ron Bass?Familiar with the name?"The guy in (the movie) 'Remember the Titans?'" USC's senior quarterback asked."What about him?"Ron Bass.